The object is different but the idea is the same, see the foot - the top (of yours) looks very much like items I have seen that take a light fitting - crazy sounding I know, but I wonder what it would look like with a shade?

Of course I think there would need to be a hole between the bottle and the clear glass fluted base, where the clear/gold flex would fit all the way through, the flex would come out one of the gaps

I have seen similar items and the clear glass looks strong and very level as if it were made as a base.

Just an idea of course

Adam P

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Thanks Adam, but there isn't a hole between the 'bottle' and clear glass 'trumpet' shape. And...In my opinion, neither end is appropriate for taking weight, nor is it totally stable when balanced on either of the two ends!

I think this is one item that will continue to stump me for a few years. And I paid £6.50 for the priviledge! :x :roll:

I got this photo from one of my 1960s Murano books - different, or should I say more simple form than yours but same idea. It shows they were a 'balancing act' as it were - these are closed off same as your item between base and main body